THE AUCKLAND RAID

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIV, Issue 25, 19 April 1912, Page 5

THE AUCKLAND RAID

HEAVY PINES IMPOSED. BOOKMAKERS FINED £75 EACH [Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, April 18. There was a full house at the Police Court to-day, when most of the people implicated in the recent betting raids came before Mr Eraser, S.M. Lofty Richards' and John Weston were charged with keeping certain premises in Queen-street, namely, No. 9 British Buildings, for the purposes of betting. Thomas Cotter, K.C., appeared for accused, who pleaded guilty. He had advised accused they had committed the offence, but asked the magistrate to take all the circumstances of the anomalous legislation into consideration. Accused were each fined £75 and c.'iats. Leonard Andrews pleaded guilty to a charge uf assisting in the management of a common gaming house. He was fined £25. Charles Taylor and Robert Porter pleaded guilty to a charge of being occupiers of an office in Coombes' Arcade kept and used as a common, gaming house.' They were each fined £75 and on relative charges-arising from above, were convicted and discharged. Danie'l Twohill, who also pleaded guilty to a charge of having kept «, common gaming house in Coombes' Arcade, was fined £75. A number of persons found on the above premises on the occasion of the raid were fined-£1 each. Other cases were not concluded.